Tanya Olson, Brian Dunnigan, and Elaine MacDougall Awarded Hrabowski Innovation Fund Grant

English faculty members Tanya Olson, Brian Dunnigan, and Elaine MacDougall received a Spring 2024 Hrabowski Innovation Fund Implementation and Research Grant. Their project, “Balancing Innovation and Ethics: Incorporating LLMs into First-Year Writing Instruction,” will introduce Writing and Rhetoric Division (WARD) instructors and students to foundational knowledge about generative AI and large language models (LLMs), develop assignments and policies for integrating LLMs into first-year composition (ENGL 100), and promote AI literacy among WARD faculty and UMBC students. The grant includes support for four workshops available to all ENGL 100 instructors in the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters. 

Congratulations Tanya, Brian, and Elaine!